Problems with frontend to backend authentication in murder 2.3.12

[Simon Matter]

> On 30 Sep 2008, at 09:31, Nic Bernstein wrote:
>> I have seen much discussion of the "no mechanism available" issue, but
>> the answer typically is "install certificates," or "Use START_TLS" or
>> the like.  Well, I have certificates, I have START_TLS, and I still
>> have
>> this problem.  How do I get the frontend to use PLAIN+TLS??
>
> PLAIN+TLS is not a mechanism.  In the released code, if you want PLAIN
> +TLS, you need to configure the server to not allow plain text.  You
> also need to not configure the frontend with a mechanism at all.
> Personally, I think this is a bug.  See:
>
> 	https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=3093
>
> for a fix.  Good luck.

Any update on this issue? I'm wondering whether the patch will go into
2.3.13?

Simon